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  • 71Ortega y Gasset, José — b. 1883, Madrid; d. 1955, Madrid    Philosopher    After taking his degree at the Central University of Madrid in 1904, Ortega undertook postgraduate study in Marburg with the neo Kantian Hermann Cohen. In 1910, he became professor of Meta… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 72different — 1. Fowler wrote in 1926 that insistence ‘that different can only be followed by from and not by to is a superstition’. It is in fact a 20c superstition that refuses to go away, despite copious evidence for the use of to and than dating back to… …

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